Hey youtubers it's Charlie and because Korra is back today I wanted to talk about the Top
5 Book 3 Characters I'm most excited about. Almost everybody is back from Book 2, sans
Dark Avatar, but there will be several new ones too.
Just as a heads up, because I'm at VidCon right now it might take me a little bit longer
to get my reviews up tonight. The first episode starts at 7PM Eastern Time on Nickelodeon.
Be sure to subscribe to get everything. I'm doing a special giveaway. I'll explain at
the end of this video.
I don't want to spoil any big character reveals, so these favorites only include people that
have appeared in the trailer. Just in case, careful for mild Book 3 spoilers on character
names. Everybody ready, here we go. Number 5 - Airbending Bumi
If you've seen the other Korra videos I've been doing lately you know I'm attributing
all the new Airbenders to Harmonic Convergence, it's a timey wimey explanation. But the idea
is that it changed the spiritual alignment of the physical world.
Before, the physical realm was very much cut off from the spirit world and now that isn't
an issue anymore, so benders are popping up everywhere. And I just love the idea of Tenzin
having to teach Bumi to master Airbending. It's going to be really funny, but I think
it's going to bring the children of Aang together in a way they weren't before.
During book 2 you could see that there were a lot of old resentments that they had never
dealt with until the crisis with the dark spirits and the Dark Avatar. Now that Bumi
is a bender, he won't feel like such an outsider in his own family.
And Tenzin will have the satisfaction of honoring their father's legacy by teaching his older
brother about the family business.
I know it sounds really melodramatic and cat's in the cradle. But mostly I think it will
be a lot of funny moments like Vacation Tenzin in book 2.
Think of the Children of Aang as like the three stooges. I don't know which ones are
Larry, Moe or Curly.
That doesn't really address Kya in the Book 3 trailer kicking ass, but I'll talk more
about her in my review of the first couple of episodes tonight. Because Bumi won't be
the only child of Aang going through significant changes.
Number 4 - Lin Beifong both Young and Old We saw a bunch of young Lin flashbacks in
the trailers and Mike and Bryan have said for a long time that Book 3 would feature
her a lot. In present day she's going to be dealing with her family history and her early
life in Republic City working for her mother's police force. Yay for more Toph flashbacks.
I don't quite know how her family story will weave into the main story about the evil bending
team, but for the first couple of episodes they'll probably just be treated as separate
plot lines.
That metal city in the trailers is the home of the Metal Bending Clan. We'll learn all
about them on Friday. Because Toph and the idea of Metalbending are so connected in the
Avatar Universe, I'm totally not surprised that a metal bending city would be part of
Lin Beifong's past.
We haven't really seen a lot of her character in Book 1 and 2. For the most part she has
only been a part of the Republic City parts of the story. I know a lot of you guys who
were watching my Book 2 videos weren't a huge fan of what was done with her character last
year.
I did feel like she was a bigger part of the story in Book 1, but I think a lot of the
reason she wasn't around in Book 2 was because the story was mostly Water Tribe based. Now
that they're traveling to the Earth Kingdom it's only natural that Lin would become a
much bigger part of the story.
I remember the first time I saw Korra Book 1, one of my favorite things was the Metal
Bending Police force going all spider man with the cables all over the city. It was
the perfect example of how bending had become more sophisticated in the 70 years since Avatar
Last Airbender.
To be fair, Meelo fart bending was a funnier example.
There was this scene of Lin Beifong in the trailer though that got me so pumped up. It
was of her inside a Metalbending Academy. There wasn't a lot of context, but the scene
is part of those leaked episodes, so if you want to talk about it please use spoiler tags.
I know everyone wants to know about the new Airbending sub-form, but right now metalbending
is still my favorite. Blood Bending is kind of cool, but something about metalbending
reminds me of fullmetal alchemist.
I'm actually hoping we get to see some Beifong metal weapon crafting. I always thought Lin
putting on her metal armor in Books 1 and 2 was a subtle Iron Man reference.
Number 3 - Su Jin, Lin Beifong's Half Sister
Based on the information we have right now I think Su Jin will be the most important
person in Lin's story during Book 3. I know all of you guys want to know where Toph is,
but as of right now she is alive, but whereabouts unknown. Making Su Jin the most important
member in Lin's family by default.
That doesn't mean Toph won't appear in Book 3 or Book 4, it just means she's a non-entity
for the time being. Like a ghost that haunts Lin. Not ghost in the sense of spirits, like
Uncle Iroh last year.
Su Jin is part of the Metal Bending clan storyline, so we might not meet her until the second
or third episode, but expect some heavy drama during their early family scenes.
Usually when someone like Lin never chooses to talk about her past or her family, it's
because something bad happened. Speaking of which, we are going to find out how Lin got
that scar on her face.
If you loved all the Aang Republic City flashbacks in book 1, you're going to love the Lin/Toph
flashbacks in Book 3. I'm not expecting to see any flashbacks until after the second
episode. Book 3 is supposed to pick up a couple of months after the end of Book 2. So they'll
still be dealing with the aftermath of the Dark Avatar.
Number 2 - Old Man Zuko
If you didn't read The Search or The Promise comics, you really haven't seen Zuko since
Last Airbender went off the air. It was said in those stories that sometime after becoming
Firelord Zuko and starting a family, he passed the title of Firelord to his daughter and
started traveling the world as an ambassador for peace.
Based on the trailers it seems like recently he's been working with the Order of the White
Lotus. Or maybe he's been working with them this whole time.
It seems like slowly as week get closer and closer to Book 4 the surviving members of
the Original Team Avatar start manifesting themselves. That makes me curious if Toph
won't appear till Book 4.
There's so many unanswered Zuko questions I want answered in Book 3 though. Who was
his wife, will we meet his daughter, General Iroh's mother. We met him in Book 2, in case
you missed it, he was voiced by Dante Basco. He's not doing the voice for Old Zuko, usually
when they bring Last Airbender voice actors back they have them voice new characters.
That's why Grey Delisle is voicing the evil waterbender. Currently Azula's whereabouts
are unknown, even though sparky sparky boom girl resembles her a lot.
It seems like a lot of Zuko's story will take place separately from Korra's, at least at
the start of Book 3. But I'm hoping we get to see him teach her some special Firebending
techniques. Remember during Book 2 Beginnings, we saw
Avatar Wan learn the Dragon Dance from the Dragon spirit, then we saw Zuko and Aang learn
it during Last Airbender?
Wouldn't it be cool if he taught it to Korra at some point. It's true she could have known
it already because Aang learned it and she possessed all his memories. But since those
are gone she won't have that Avatar Hard Drive to access anymore.
and the number 1 character I'm looking forward to is a four way tie for what I'm calling
the evil bending team. If this were The Karate Kid movie, they would be Cobra Kai. "No mercy
in our Dojo"
I'm hoping that first or second episode introduces them all. I don't want to talk about them
too much, but here are their names:
The Firebender, Sparky Sparky Boom girl is Pey Li
The Water Bender is Ming Jua
The Airbender is Zaheer
and we don't know the name of the Earthbender yet.
They have a weird history with Korra when she was a baby that Zuko will explain. There's
rumors that part of Book 3 will involve a plot about controlling future Avatars. If
you can predict which Bending tribe the next avatar will come from, you can influence the
next Avatar if you're sneaky enough.
It's unclear how the evil bending team is tied up in all this, but there's going to
be so many classic avatar last airbender callbacks, if you were a fan of that series. You're going
to love Book 3.
Now it's your turn, let me know which character you're most excited about in Book 3.
I didn't mention him, but Bolin would be my bonus choice, fingers crossed Bolin learns
to metalbend this year.
Here's the details on my Book 3 review videos tonight. Because they're airing the first
three episodes back to back, what I'm doing is posting a review of the first two episodes
combined right after the episode airs. Be sure to subscribe to get it.
Then Saturday I'll post a review of that third episode. And because that's three Korra videos
in two days I'm not doing a Q&A video this week. But I will be giving away three separate
gift cards for each of those three episodes. Two in that first review video tonight and
one for the saturday video.
All you have to do to participate is be a subscriber and leave a comment on one of those
videos.
I should be able to post my review tonight by 9PM Eastern Time. But if you're worried
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updates there. Links for all that at the bottom of the description.
Right now click here for my Episode 1 and 2 review video, I'll add the annotation as
soon as I post it. and click here for my giant Korra master playlist. It has all the Korra
videos I've done.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight, High Fives!